Chapter 848

Seeing the first sentence of the letter, Franca had the feeling that it had finally arrived.

She had been waiting, waiting for Mr. "Star" to put forward his needs, so as to exchange for low-to-mid sequence potions of the "Night" pathway for Amandina.

Franca was a bit expectant and a bit nervous as she read the content that followed:

"He hopes you can help him interpret the text in the data attached to this letter. They are a bit like the text in Emperor Roselle's diary."

"He didn't set a time limit. You can take your time."

"The intelligence you mentioned that Kresmina's father might be the 'Blood Emperor' Alista Tudor is very useful and very important."

"Now, we suspect that the one in the deepest part of the special Mirror World, the one worshipped by the 'Mirror Person,' might not be the 'Primordial Demoness' in the complete sense, but one of the purposes of the 'Blood Emperor' and the 'Primordial Demoness' creating that special Mirror World back then, and has a very close connection with the 'Primordial Demoness.' But this seems to have slipped out of Their control. The 'Primordial Demoness's' poor state now should have reasons related to this."

"Next, the main task for you and 'Cup of Seven' is to find the 'Mirror Person' Jasmine and test the 'Black Witch' to see if she has a deep understanding of the special Mirror World. Of course, the premise of all this is that you must ensure your own safety."

"If you encounter abnormalities, you can request help from me."

Ms. "Judgment" still doesn't have a single word of nonsense... Franca flipped to the next page of letter paper.

The following was the attached data.

Franca only took one look, and her pupils widened abruptly:

This, where is this the text from Emperor Roselle's diary!

This doesn't know if it's oracle bone script or bronze script, in short, it's one of the oldest texts of the country where she and Emperor Roselle were before crossing over!

"Where did this come from?"

"Who the hell knows these..."

"Not sure if it's really oracle bone script or bronze script, after all, I don't understand it either, I'm an illiterate..."

"Is it an unknown occult language of this world, just quite like oracle bone script?"

"But it really looks a bit like it. This is clearly pictographic text at a glance!"

Franca began to identify it carefully.

Although she hadn't learned oracle bone script or bronze script, as a new youth who grew up in the internet era, she had more or less seen some and remembered the simplest few, such as "person."

Not long after, she discovered multiple pattern-type texts that were similar.

"Slightly different from what I remember, but generally the same..."

"Treat it as oracle bone script or bronze script for now... Where did Mr. 'Star' get it? Did they find Harrison on Resurrection Island? No, if they really found him, they wouldn't not tell me..."

"Or, did they come into contact with the 'Celestial Master' related matters when that Great Arcana card holder of the 'Moses Ascetic Order' was tracking the missing 'Ten Pillars' Kemolo?"

"Very likely! No wonder the preface of this data told me that the order of the text has been disrupted to avoid contamination during my interpretation. As expected of the 'Celestial Master' who holds the 'Secret Keeper' and 'Savant' pathways!"

"But without being able to connect the context, the difficulty of interpretation has increased by more than double..."

"Chen Tu! 'Armor Shadow' Chen Tu might know, but I can only ask three or four questions per summoning... Don't know if I can ask directly what the general meaning of this data is..."

As Franca's thoughts raced, she decided to seek help from the "Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society" first.

There were many members in the society who came from the same country as her, and many were highly educated. Among them, there might be those who had deeply contacted or studied oracle bone script or bronze script.

Franca didn't require the other party to be a master of oracle bone script or bronze script; being able to identify those commonly used texts was enough. Let the Great Arcana cards guess based on the contextual relationship of the original data.

After making the decision, Franca wrote letters with great enthusiasm, intending to summon Ms. "Hela's" messenger and request a gathering to be held recently.

She was too lazy to go out again to find Lu Mian for a "date" and discuss the "Black Witch" matter. After gnawing on a cream bread, she sat at the desk and picked out the few texts she barely recognized, studying them repeatedly.

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Memorial Hall District, in the apartment Lu Mian rented.

Lu Mian sat on the sofa, looking at Ludwig who was reading "Ghost Face" magazine, and pondered the subsequent "taming" plan.

After more than ten minutes, he revealed a smile at Ludwig:

"You've been quite free lately. Apart from eating, there's nothing else."

"Let me give you an assignment."

The key point of "taming" is to make the other party obey orders, even forcing themselves to do things they are unwilling to do.

Of course, relying purely on deterrence and suppression won't work. It might work once or twice, but after more times, Ludwig would definitely run away from home again.

Ludwig's expression became terrified instantly, as if saying "See, you were indeed contaminated by the Church of Knowledge!"

Not giving him a chance to speak, Lu Mian added on his own:

"This assignment is to taste the more famous meat pies in Trier, collect information yourself, formulate a route yourself, and finally organize a food report."

The first step to obeying orders is to let the orders be accepted by the child, to be something he can do and is willing to do, and then gradually increase the load.

Ludwig's eyes suddenly lit up.

He licked his lips and said:

"Good!"

The little boy looked out the window and stood up impatiently:

"I'll go now!"

Lu Mian laughed instantly:

"It's already dark, it's too dangerous outside. You're still just a child."

Too dangerous... still just a child... Lugano next to him couldn't help but look at Ludwig, his face full of disapproval.

Lu Mian sighed and said:

"I mean, he's still just a child, his self-control isn't enough, and it will be quite dangerous for the Trier citizens walking on the street at night."

He then said to Ludwig:

"You collect information from newspapers and magazines tonight, formulate a plan, and go complete it when the sun rises tomorrow."

"Hmm hmm!" Ludwig jumped down from the single sofa and rummaged through the newspapers and magazines he had subscribed to before, quite seriously.

Lu Mian nodded with satisfaction, walked back to his bedroom, and put a ball of scorching white flame that could burn continuously for more than half an hour into the independent space in the "Traveler's Bag."

After a while, he took out the completely charred and deformed Celeste corpse chunk, which couldn't be seen which part of the body it belonged to, and examined it for a few seconds.

According to the result of Franca's "Magic Mirror Divination," this, after refining and extraction, could replace the "tail tip of the two-tailed black snake" in the auxiliary materials of the "Pain" potion.

The "bat blood with flower face" in the auxiliary materials also didn't need to be collected anymore; Franca's blood was a better substitute.

Lu Mian stuffed the corpse chunk back into the "Traveler's Bag" and took out the books he had borrowed from the Morora Church of Knowledge.

Although Ms. "Magician" had already helped him seal "Black Tear," no one would think that useful knowledge was too much.

Of course, the more useful the knowledge, the more likely it was to carry strong contamination, requiring weighing and trade-offs.

Lu Mian lit the gas wall lamp, picked a book titled "Walking into the Mysterious Hall," and read leisurely.

As time passed minute by minute, he suddenly turned his head and looked toward the door.

His bedroom door creaked open, and a person grew out of the shadows.

It was Jenna, wearing a white shirt and a light-colored gauze skirt. Her slightly darker flaxen hair was coiled up, her blue eyes were big and bright, her face was lightly powdered with some rouge, and a small black mole was pasted in the middle of her nose.

Her white lady's shirt with flower decorations wasn't revealing, but because of that near-perfect curve, it made people's thoughts wander and their throats dry.

At this moment, Lu Mian felt as if he saw the figures of the past "flamboyant woman" Jenna and the actor apprentice Chellia Bello overlap together, clear and beautiful, revealing a bit of indescribable charm.

"I have something I need your help with." Jenna closed the bedroom door with a light smile.

Lu Mian suddenly had a dangerous premonition. It wasn't that his life was threatened, but that he felt uneasy because of another matter.

"I'm afraid I can't help you." Lu Mian relied on the trait of a "Monk" and said calmly on the surface.

Jenna lowered her eyelids, covering her water-bright blue eyes.

She walked to the bed, sat down, looked at Lu Mian again, and said with a smile in her eyes:

"Let me finish speaking first, listen to my reasons."

Lu Mian was silent for a few seconds and said:

"Go ahead."

Jenna put her hands on both sides, leaned her body forward slightly, and said with a somewhat playful posture:

"It seems you've already guessed it. Yes, I want to find you to help me digest the 'Pleasure' potion."

Sure enough... Lu Mian said with a headache:

"Why not find Franca?"

"Two reasons, one on the surface, one real. Which one do you want to hear?" Jenna asked with a smile.

Lu Mian rubbed his temples:

"The one on the surface."

Jenna pursed her lips and laughed at herself:

"She would be very happy to help me digest the 'Pleasure' potion, and there would be no resistance in her heart. The pain would be very little, so it wouldn't fit the acting taboo of pleasure bringing pain. My speed of digesting the potion would be very slow."

"And you, I know you are unwilling, relatively repulsed by this matter. The more this is the case, the more pleasure you experience, eventually even being a bit reluctant, accompanied by self-blaming pain, the faster my 'Pleasure' potion will be digested. In addition, a very important point is that you have a fake angel level. If everything goes smoothly, perhaps I only need two or three weeks to digest the potion and consider advancing to 'Painful Witch'."

"As the leader of the team, isn't this the best choice? It can effectively help you improve the quality of the team and make the ritual effect better."

"You don't need to recommend 'Black Tear' to me. Digesting the 'Pleasure' potion requires an object."

Lu Mian was silent and didn't respond.

Jenna couldn't help but say "Heh":

"You just treat this as taking teammates to 'teleport,' borrowing power for teammates. And without feelings, you have always been indifferent to things, always feeling that you have no morals. Hey, do you have mysophobia? It's just helping!"

Lu Mian said after a few seconds:

"What about you?"

Jenna lowered her eyelids and laughed softly:

"I will also experience pleasure in pain and feel pain in pleasure. It fits the acting taboo very well."

Lu Mian was silent for a while and said:

"What about Franca?"

Jenna bit her lip, her eyes deep as she said:

"If she finds out, it will be just right for her to digest the 'Pain' potion."

Lu Mian let out a long sigh:

"I thought you would find a way to seduce me, detonate my desires, and achieve your goal. I didn't expect you to talk to me about reason like a negotiation."

Jenna wrinkled her face and scolded with a hum:

"If I used the method of seduction, you would definitely 'teleport' and run away directly!"

"It's better to explain the pros and cons to you, telling you that this is a normal and ordinary thing like drinking water and dining, without having to have guilt, and without you having to pay feelings. This is very common in Intis!"

(End of chapter)